City should remove ubiquitous ad eyesores

IF I HAD my way, and I am sure thousands of other ratepayers would agree with me, Joburg Metro would be free of all advertising posters.

Imagine how wonderful it would be to live and work in a clean, green city.

Who allowed those horrendous wrap-arounds?

They’re as big as several houses and can stretch for an entire block – way in excess of any allowable sizes I ever saw.

How about mayor Parks Tau kickstarting his blatant, bil- lion-rand-ANC-vote-catching employment scheme, by getting teams to scrape off those flyers stuck on just about every stop sign and rubbish bin?

Surely the needs of ratepayers should come before grandiose employment schemes.

Then one has to ask who is going to keep track of all that “employment” money?

It’s time Tau did a proper job; put ratepayers first, and spend our money on employing professional, accountable contractors to do a decent job in the first place. That on its own would provide more employment.

We ratepayers, who are still bothering to pay for water, electricity and the like, are not happy. In fact, we’re buckling under the burden of trying to keep things going.

Whether via the Tau employment benefit scheme or by professionals, Joburg needs a drastic clean-up. Make those who are behind the eyesore flyers clean them off at their expense, especially the ones advertising bum, hip and penis enlargements.

Why weren’t the perpetrators stopped years ago by the simple tracing of cellphone numbers?

Or how about starting a civic clean-up competition?

Pay the beggars at each intersection or teams of the unemployed for every illegal poster they hand in or for information as to who is putting them up.

Stella Baker

Parkview, Joburg